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Technology

Planes are under attack from GPS jamming 鈥� can we find a fix?

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (11912051g) Hundreds of Polish students took part in the 'Krakow For Climate Justice' protest asking for climate justice and expressing opposition to the passivity of politicians in the face of the climate disasters. On September 25, 2019, in Krakow, Poland. Climate Justice Protest In Krakow, Poland - 25 Sep 2020

Environment

In the race to ramp up renewables, we can’t ignore heat storage

Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

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Environment

How incredibly simple tech can supercharge the race to net zero

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Space

The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth

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Leaders

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (11912051g) Hundreds of Polish students took part in the 'Krakow For Climate Justice' protest asking for climate justice and expressing opposition to the passivity of politicians in the face of the climate disasters. On September 25, 2019, in Krakow, Poland. Climate Justice Protest In Krakow, Poland - 25 Sep 2020

Environment

In the race to ramp up renewables, we can’t ignore heat storage

Governments must step up if we are to make good on Thermal Energy Storage's promise as a cheap and easy way to help tackle wind and solar power's intermittency problem

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Life

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor 鈥� and now it seems this organism may have lived a few hundred million years after the planet formed

Physics

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

Health

Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce the risk of leaks

Health

Bird flu cases may be going undetected in US dairy workers

Environment

Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping

Humans

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different environments

Environment

Floating whale carcasses are a problem 鈥� can we predict their drift?

Health

People at risk of overdose could be fitted with an anti-opioid implant

Space

Deep pit on moon may be entrance to cave that could act as lunar base

Space

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recycling spacesuit

Health

People with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from spending time with horses

Health

Your pupils change size as you breathe

Life

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried ‘jerky’

Health

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

Humans

The plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago

Life

Lions’ record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera

Environment

Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess power from renewables

Analysis

Environment

Is a vital ocean current just decades away from catastrophic collapse?

Two studies suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collapse by the middle of the century and wreak havoc with the climate, but such predictions are controversial

Technology

Planes are under attack from GPS jamming 鈥� can we find a fix?

Environment

We are risking a heat disaster for athletes at the Olympics in Paris

Mind

Could we share dreams by synchronising REM sleep?

Aperture

Physics

Take a look behind the scenes at the world’s largest fusion experiment

Photographer Enrico Sacchetti captures the power and potential of ITER, an international nuclear fusion experiment currently under construction in southern France

Features

Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

The lifestyle choices you make in middle age play a particularly important role in how your brain ages

Environment

How incredibly simple tech can supercharge the race to net zero

Space

The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth

Culture

2XBXB3H EDITORIAL USE ONLY Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger, is announced as the winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, taking place at Bedford Square Gardens, London. Picture date: Thursday June 13, 2024.

Technology

Naomi Klein on the rise of misinformation and conspiracy influencers

Writer Naomi Klein unpacks her book Doppelganger about the "mirror world" of misinformation, conspiracy influencers and strange alt-right alliances

Comment

快猫短视频 recommends YouTube series Journey to the Microcosmos

Comment

An entertaining history of gases shows science at work in daily life

Comment

Would you resurrect a dead loved one with AI, asks a new documentary

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Chemistry

How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It’s all about thermodynamics

Getting this delicious cooked ice-cream dessert right requires a little bit of science know-how to avoid a melted disaster, says Catherine de Lange

Tom Gauld on an accidental lab order

Twisteddoodles on the two types of conference speakers

Regulars

Do academics really split hairs at work? They certainly do now!

Feedback is amazed that researchers have split a single hair from end to end. They think it will help predict who will get split ends from colouring hair and similar treatments

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week鈥檚 new questions

Could aliens work out if a human or an ape built the tomb they lie in?

How did marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs breathe?

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